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OP, assuming you are the author. This is obviously the work of someone that has lived open source for a long time, and not the musings of a market analyst or investor. The product focus suggests tactical lessons-learned driving the broader thesis outlined here. What's the origin story on the piece? I'd love to see a follow-up piece one those lessons-learned.

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Thanks! I happened to have a unique seat in the OSS world for the past 10 years, and worked with literally hundreds of companies across Heroku Add-ons, and Azure's pivot to an oss partnership strategy. I was a product manager, so as you point out I see the world through a product lens. Most interesting were my vantage points into GitHub, Docker, Mesosphere, CloudBees, jFrog.

This post was already long. It started off as a single slide and turned into this 2500 word blog. You are pulling the thread on a major part that ended up on the cutting room floor - the back stories on some of the companies that I worked with, including the aforementioned.

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